title: [Extended and palliative surgery in the treatment of gastric cancer in advanced stage].
abstract: Five hundred and fifty patients operated between 1965 and 1983 for stomach carcinoma were included in the study. Of these, 244 (44.4%) underwent extended (54 patients) or palliative surgery (190 patients) due to the extragastric diffusion of the neoplasia. Global postoperative mortality for patients undergoing extended surgery was 16.7% and the five-year survival rate was 18.5%; in the case of those undergoing palliative surgery the postoperative mortality rate was 30.5% and the two-year survival rate was 14% for resection and 4% for derivatives. Patients who underwent a derivative operation showed an easing of symptoms and an improved quality of life. On the basis of these results the Authors consider that the possibility of extended surgery should still be carefully evaluated in patients in whom a stomach tumour has exceeded the gastric boundary, irrespective of its extent, since the limit of radical surgery is not related to the extension of surgical demolition but to the entity of the extragastric diffusion of the neoplasia. In addition, surgical abstention is not always justified even in patients in whom surgery cannot be curative since a 10% five-year survival rate was observed in patients undergoing palliative resection.
authors.affiliation: Divisione di Chirurgia Generale, Regione Liguria, USL n. 4, Ospedale di Albenga.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Anfossi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gori
authors.forename: G B
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Secco
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Percivale
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000379:methods; D015996:Survival Rate
vernacular_title: Chirurgia allargata e palliativa nel trattamento del cancro gastrico in fase avanzata.